Vertical cutter attachment for mowing-machines.



l 0. KLUGE. VERTICAL CUTTER ATTACHMENT FOR HOW ING MACHINES.

APPLIQATION FILED NOV. 7, 1911.

1,015, 0 Patented Jan 30.1912

Witnesses oTTo KLUGE, or eoncoiyim, ILLINOIS.

VERTICAL G'U'JfTIilR.ATTAGIHIIVI1F. l1 ;1"1 FOR MOWiNG-MACHINES;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O'rro KLUGE, a citizen of the United States,residingat Golconda, in the county of Pope and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Vertical Cutter Attachment for Mowing-'Machines, of which the followingv is'a specification.

- as to prevent side draft thereon by the uncut vegetation.

A further object is to provide improved means-for transmitting motionfrom the horizontal cutter bar to the vertical bar, the two bars movinginunison and themechanism employed for transmitting motion from one tothe other being positioned Where it will not engage the uncut vegetationdur-.

ing the movement of the machine.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in View which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spiritof theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings the pre ferred form of the inventionhasbeen shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a mowing machinehaving the present improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlargedside elevation of the device constituting thepresent invention. Fig. 3is a plan view of said attachment and of a portion of the cutter bar ofthe mowing machine. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the means fortransmitting motion from one cutter bar to the other.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference A designates 'amowing machine of any preferred type utilizing a finger bar B and acutter bar C. As is usual in devices of this character, a shoe 1 islocated at the outer end of the finger bar but in the present instancethe finger bar and the cutter bar extend into a longitudinal recess 2Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30,1912.

v Application filed November 7, 1911. Serial No. 659,050.

formed in the upper face of the shoe and extending forwardly from thecutter bar. In this recess is arranged a longitudinally extending shaft3 having a crank 4 adjacent one end which is connected, bya pitnian 5,to the reciprocating cutter bar C. 4

As shown particularly in Fig. 8 the inner side of the shoe 1 is straightfrom end to end and the cutter bar C does not extend beyond the ,outerside of the. said shoe. Upstanding from the bottom of the recess 2 isafinger bar 6 the inner face of which is flush with the straight \innerside of the shoe 1. A. cutter bar 7 is mounted to reciprocatelongitudinally of the finger bar 6 and. the lower endthereof has apitman 8 connected to itand to a crank 9 formed in the front portion ofthe shaft 3, said crank 9 being preferably disposed at 90 degrees to thecrank 4.

A rod 10 is secured at its front end to the front end portion of theshoe 1 and extends upwardly and rearwardly'above the recess 2,"said rodterminating-in a downwardly extending extremity 11 engaging the rearportion of the shoe. This rod serves as a shield to prevent vegetationfrom falling inwardly over the shoe and into engagement with the cutterbar. Importance is attached to the fact thatthe' cutter bar 7 works in apath traveled by the pointed shoe 1 and it will thus be seen that as themachine is drawn forward, the shoe divides the vegetation in the paththereof and the same is then cut by the upstanding bar 7 so that, whenthe horizontal cutter bar G acts upon the vegetation in ,the paththereof, said vegetation will 'becompletely severed and there will be noside draft on the machine. -This result is due solely to the fact thatcutter bar 7 worksin front of the path of the end of the cutter barC andabove the The simple space formed by the shoe 1. means disclosed fortransmitting motion from the cutter bar C to the cutter bar 7 results inthe actuation-of the two bars in unison,- the bar C moving to the rightduring the upright movement of the bar 7 and moving to the left duringthe downward movement of said bar 7. It is understood of course that theshaft 3 does not rotate but merely rocks on its longitudinal axis.

What is claimed is 1. In a mowingmachine the combination with ahorizontal finger bar and a cutter bar mounted for reciprocationthereon, of

a longitudinally recessed shoe at the outer end of the finger bar, thecorresponding end of the cutter bar working within the recess, said shoehaving its inner side straight from end to end, a finger bar upstandingfrom the bottom of the recess and having its inner face flush with thestraight inner side of the shoe, a cutter bar mounted for reciprocationI upon said finger bar, a rock shaft extending longitudinally Within therecess and having angularly disposed cranks, a pitmancon nection betweenone of the cranks and the upstanding cutter bar, and a pitman con--.nection between the other crankand the horizontal cutter bar.

2. 'In a mowing machine the combination with a-horizontal finger bar anda cutter bar mounted for reciprocation thereon, of a shoe at the outerend of said finger bar and 7 having a longitudinal recess within which.

the end of the cutter bar is adapted to work,

a rock shaft extending longitudinally with in the recess'and havingspaced cranks disposed at angles to each other, the inner side of theshoe being-straight from end to end, a finger bar upstanding from thebottom of the recess andhaving one face flush With the straight side ofthe shoe, a cutter bar mounted to reciprocate on the finger bar, apitman connection between said cutter bar and one ofthecranks, a pitmanconnection between the other cutter bar and the other crank, and a guardextending over and iongitudinally of the recess and outside of theupstanding cutter bar.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing asmy own, I have hereto afiixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' OTTO KLUGE.

Witnesses:

W. A. WHITESIDE, THOS, H. CLARK.

